Andhra Pradesh News

Telangana Government has made Rudhramadevi tax free, see what Baahubali director has to say about it…
The Telangana government has exempted, from entertainment tax, Telugu movie “Rudhramadevi”, which is set to hit the screens on Friday. Click here to read more

Seems like Baahubali fever has gripped fans down south. And angry fans sometime can do weird things. One such episode is doing rounds online…
SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus Baahubali starring Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Tamannaah Bhatia and Ramya Krishna has hit the theatres. The movie is rocking the box office and on it’s very first day broke all Indian film box office records by making as much as Rs 50 crores. It seems like in Hyderabad the film’s screening suffered a slight glitch. Click here to read more

B-town celebs took to Twitter to express concern for the victims of the deadly cyclone that hit Odisha and Andhra PradeshCyclone Phailin, half the size of India and packed with gusts going at over 200 km an hour, hit the coastal rims of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha the hardest, sending at least half a million people into emergency shelters. While the entire nation is praying for the well-being of the victims, there are some celebrities from B-town who took on to Twitter and expressed their concern for the victims of Cyclone Phailin. Take a look at what the celebs had to sayClick here to read more

Superstar Chiranjeevi’s son Ram Charan Teja’s Bollywood debut might run into rough weather in Andhra Pradesh due to the Telangana issue
Owing to the ongoing strife across the states of Andhra Pradesh and the newly formed Telangana, actor-politician Chiranjeevi’s son Ram Charan’s upcoming film Zanjeer which also stars Priyanka Chopra could face a roadblock. Click here to read more

Muslim groups pointed out four objectionable scenes in the controversial film, which Kamal Haasan has consented to delete
Veteran actor-director Kamal Haasan has agreed to modify his film Vishwaroopamfollowing objections from certain Muslim organisations. “My Muslim brothers have written and to me and we have settled amicably. Click here to read more

This past weekend, Cineswami was importuned to watch the latest Vijay vehicle Nanban, it being Sankranti/Pongal. Obviously, the whole world and its canine friend knows that the film is a remake of Rajkumar Hirani’s 3 Idiots and the same world dwellers and their barking brethren would have seen the Hindi film
Apparently not, as our friends in Kollywood purchased the Tamil remake rights and entrusted the reins to Shankar, the biggest Indian director. Upon watching the film, the first thing that strikes you is how incredibly lazy it is. Apart from a few song picturisations, which themselves feel cut and pasted from past Shankar triumphs, there is absolutely nothing new in Nanban, if you have watched 3 Idiots that is. The plot is exactly the same, the dialogue appears to have been translated from the Hindi by a machine and what’s worse, for much of the film it’s a shot by shot rendering. Clearly, Shankar the director was on a break from making two Rajinikanth films back to back and having too good a time to put his own stamp on Nanban. Click here to read more

The four southern states together account for more than half of India’s 10,000 movie screens
Bollywood may hog the limelight but the quiet and industrious south Indian entertainment industry is the real growth driver for the Indian film industry and also the creative bellwether, given the sheer number of south Indian films remade in Hindi. That’s quite an achievement for a region accounting for just four of India’s 28 states – Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala – and a union territory, Pondicherry. These grand statements are not just narrow regionalism; they are borne out by a joint report on the south Indian industry compiled by the Federation of the Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and research firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India. Click here to read more

Actor Genelia D’souza has rubbished reports that she has been banned from the southern film industry due to her non-cooperative attitude
A media report said that the Movie Artistes’ Association (MAA) of Andhra Pradesh announced that the actress, who has been working in the southern industry for the past eight years, hasn’t sought a lifetime membership with the association despite repeated reminders from the association. Reacting to this on Twitter, she wrote: “It’s not nice when people make you a target only because you are strong enough to take it. With no bans or notices issued against me, there’s no reason why there should be this hoopla created.” Click here to read more

Banning Aarakshan merely illustrates the fact that India is a democracy in name only and freedom of expression is a myth
It is uncharitable for certain prominent, not to mention loudmouthed and incoherent television commentators to suggest that the brouhaha surrounding Prakash Jha’s Aarakshan is merely a publicity stunt. Granted that in today’s over-saturated media scenario every filmmaker will go all out to promote his or her film, but surely Jha doesn’t have the governments of three states in his pocket? Persuading Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh to ban the film and getting Maharashtra to seek cuts just for the sake of publicity is too daft and far-fetched an idea, even for the imbeciles who populate television today. Click here to read more

It has broken the record of Mahesh Babu’s Pokkiri
Kalabhairava, it seems, is riding his steed into the record books. Tollywood’s biggest ever blockbuster Magadheera, which was released on July 31, 2009, has so far collected Rs 70 crore. The latest is that the film has completed 700 days’ run at some theatres in Andhra Pradesh, breaking the record of Mahesh Babu’s Pokkiri, which ran for 500 days. Click here to read more